Embedded Software Engineer, Sr (Linux)

    • Qualcomm Technologies
  • San Diego, CA
  • Posted 52 days ago | Updated 2 hours ago

Overview

On Site
USD 104,000.00 - 156,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

C++
Policies and procedures
Embedded software
Software engineering
Software development
Product requirements
Information systems
Computer science
Computer architecture
ARM architecture
Real-time
Operating systems
Embedded systems
Machine Learning (ML)
Version control
Linux
Innovation
Management
Computer hardware
System on a chip
Algorithms
Debugging
C
Java
Python
Application service management
JTAG
Compilers
Scripting
Agile
Kanban
Perforce
Git
Firmware
CPU
Data
IoT
Android
Recruiting
Law
Sales

Job Details

Company:Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

QCT Core Technologies is looking to hire an experienced, talented engineer in the Power and Limits management software group. In this highly visible role, candidates will be working in a dynamic environment, interfacing across multiple disciplines including system, power, software, and hardware engineers to develop innovative architectures that meet the requirements of Qualcomm growing product portfolio. Candidates will be able to gain exposure to the full product life cycle from pre-silicon to commercialization of Qualcomm chipsets.

As a Power and Limits software engineer, candidates will own or participate in one or more of the following:
  • Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC
  • Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.
  • Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components
  • Involvement in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs
  • Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Computer Architecture (ARM architecture preferred)
  • Real Time Operating Systems
  • C/ASM programming
  • Debugging Real Time Embedded Systems using JTAG or equivalent
  • Compilers / Linkers
  • Python Scripting
  • Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers/software based on that information
  • Embedded software
  • Machine Learning
  • Agile development; Kanban
  • Version control systems such as Perforce/Git

Technical Domains

Product feature areas include, but are not limited to:
  • Developing firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems
  • Analyzing the execution efficiency of power software
  • Managing the performance/thermal efficiency tradeoffs
  • SOC level interactions between various software components
  • Machine learning on data sets spanning across generations of product architectures,
  • IoE/IoT sectors, and
  • Working with various HLOS (eg: Android) on application cores to meet end-to-end performance

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm's toll-free number found for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:
$104,000.00 - $156,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer!

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